War and Health : : The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / / ed. by Andrea Mazzarino, Catherine Lutz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Abu-Sittah, Ghassan Soleiman,; Closser, Svea,; Coburn, Noah,; Crawford, Neta,; Daulatzai, Anila,; Harding, Scott,; Hautzinger, Sarah,; Inhorn, Marcia C.,; Libal, Kathryn,; Liese, Kylea Laina,; Lutz, Catherine,; MacLeish, Ken,; Mazzarino, Andrea,; Mula-Hussain, Layth,; Omidian, Patricia,; Panter-Brick, Catherine,; Scandlyn, Jean,; Skelton, Mac,; Wool, Zoë H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lutz, Catherine,; Mazzarino, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Provides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield Since 2010, a team of activists, social scientists, and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through an initiative called the Costs of War Project. Unlike most studies of war casualties, this research looks beyond lives lost in violence to consider those who have died as a result of illness, injuries, and malnutrition that would not have occurred had the war not taken place. Incredibly, the Cost of War Project has found that, of the more than 1,000,000 lives lost in the recent US wars, a minimum of 800,000 died not from violence, but from indirect causes. War and Health offers a critical examination of these indirect casualties, examining health outcomes on the battlefield and elsewhere-in hospitals, homes, and refugee camps-both during combat and in the years following, as communities struggle to live normal lives despite decimated social services, lack of access to medical care, ongoing illness and disability, malnutrition, loss of infrastructure, and increased substance abuse. The volume considers the effect of the war on both civilians and on US service members, in war zones-where healthcare systems have been destroyed by long-term conflict-and in the United States, where healthcare is highly developed. Ultimately, it draws much-needed attention to the far-reaching health consequences of the recent US wars, and argues that we cannot go to war-and remain at war-without understanding the catastrophic effect war has on the entire ecosystem of human health.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Health Consequences of War -- Part I Afghanistan and Pakistan -- 1 Childbirth in the Context of Conflict in Afghanistan -- 2 Drone Strikes and Vaccination Campaigns How the War on Terror Helps Sustain Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- 3 Remaining Undone Heroin in the Time of Serial War -- 4 Dignity under Extreme Duress The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan- Pakistan Border Areas -- Part II Iraq -- 5 War and the Public Health Disaster in Iraq -- 6 The Political Capital of War Wounds -- 7 Iraqis’ Cancer Itineraries War, Medical Travel, and Therapeutic Geographies -- 8 War and Its Consequences for Cancer Trends and Services in Iraq -- Part III United States -- 9 Imagining Military Suicide -- 10 Afterwar Work for Life -- 11 “It’s Not Okay” War’s Toll on Health Brought Home to Communities and Environments -- Appendix The Body Count -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index